My undergraduate degree was in journalism.  I couldn’t understand what was so difficult about making a correction.  In essence admitting to a mistake. I had a job at a small newspaper and I wrote an article about a building code meeting.  I thought everyone could see what I was writing.  The meeting was a sham – a way to get construction dome that violated the code.

People from both sides of the argument complained.  I made a mIstake by not being more clear about the corruption in the meeting.  Now I had to uSe writing skills to spill the beans without losing my job.  Remember news back then was really news.

I admitted to not being open about te meeting.  I explained that my opinion was not the news.  I wrote an article on how news stood separate from opinion.

I made a mistake in WOKE. I actually forgot the gist of my piece.

My aim was to connect my reading about Viet Nam to a book that will be written in the future about what happened in the draining of the swamp.  Like the writer of the Viet Nam book, I think he really believed his work/ Or else he was an early CIA plant.

My point is that someone will write a great piece that will be erroneous on every issue.  But that writer will be a plant.

I enjoy reading many left leaning magazines because the writer is great. Sophistry at its best with great PROSE.  The initial premise is often wrong , missing or tainted but the remainder of the article is a study in good writing.